Cape Girardeau

A southeast Missouri man who has portrayed Santa Claus at events has been granted a change of venue for his trial on charges that he sexually abused a child.

Authorities say a man has died after falling off a boat in a Mississippi River diversion channel.

Authorities say a Cape Girardeau man has drowned while swimming to a dike in the Mississippi River.

JACKSON, Mo. (AP) — A Cape Girardeau (juh-RAHR'-doh) businessman has been found guilty of killing his wife and 18-year-old son. KFVS reports that jurors in a Cape Girardeau County court on Thursday found George Joseph guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 deaths of his wife, Mary, and son, Matthew, who were shot to death at the family's home...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Cape Girardeau must come up with a 20 percent match of federal grants to fix sinkholes. A section of road that includes the bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek has been closed since 2013 due to sinkholes in the area...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A woman who was abducted in Cape Girardeau has managed to escape in Illinois. A woman told the FBI and Cape Girardeau police that she was sitting in her car in South County Park Tuesday morning when a man physically forced her into his pickup...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — An improvement plan for Cape Girardeau's riverfront includes extending trails and putting in better floodwalls. A federal grant is covering the cost of the projects. The river walk extension will begin this year but it could take longer before work on floodwall projects begin...

CAPE GIRARDEU, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have shot and wounded an armed suspect in a southeast Missouri hotel room. The Southeast Missourian reports that 28-year-old James Wilkins was taken to a hospital after he was shot in the chest Saturday morning...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — The body of a 64-year-old Cape Girardeau  man has been found in a lake in southeast Missouri. The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department says the death of Terry Dale Dalton is considered suspicious. The Southeast Missourian reports that his body was found Saturday morning in Elk's Lake...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Conservation officials say DNA tests confirm that a canine shot and killed by a southeast Missouri man in November was indeed a wolf.